Label may be illegal, warns senior scientist

The labelling of the first homeopathic product to get a licence from the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should be illegal, because they breach Unfair Trading regulations, a leading senior scientist has argued. Prof David Colquhoun from University College London wrote that the MHRA ‘has made a mockery of its own aims’ by allowing Arnica 30C pills to be labelled ‘a homoeopathic medicinal product used with the homoeopathic tradition for the symptomatic relief of sprains, muscular aches, and bruising or swelling after contusions’. {openx:269} This label should be illegal, he said, because the pills contain no trace…